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Song Spotlight: “One Step Up” – Bruce Springsteen

IT’S A CHALLENGE to find a song that better documents the demise of a relationship than Bruce Springsteen’s One Step Up. It’s a challenge for me not to think of the demise of relationships every time I hear this song.

So simple, so minimal, yet so accurate and so heavy:

We’ve given each other some hard lessons latelyBut we ain’t learnin’We’re the same sad story that’s a factOne step up and two steps back